The Dodgers have won 71 games since Tyler Glasnow earned his last victory.
That was March 31, 152 days ago. The season was six games old then. No other pitcher with at least 13 major league starts has gone longer without a win this season.
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Yet Glasnow was never deserving of a better fate than he was Saturday, when he took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and a shutout into the seventh, only to wind up with the loss when the Dodgers fell 6-1 to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
With the Padres beating the Minnesota Twins, the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West is back at one game.
It’s not as if Glasnow has pitched poorly. In one start he didn’t yield a run and in four others he gave up just one.
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He didn’t get the win in any of those games — and that’s starting to get old.
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“I know our team will will come back and play better,” said Glasnow, easily the best pitcher in baseball with a 1-3 record. “But it’s frustrating right now.”
In four of his first 13 starts, the Dodgers (77-59) didn’t score a run behind him. So while his 2.45 earned-run average and six earned runs given up in four July appearances led the team’s starters, all he had was a loss and three no decisions to show for it.
He was almost as good in August — when his record was 0-2.
“He can only do what he can do,” manager Dave Roberts said. “So, yeah, if you’re not scoring runs, it certainly decreases your margin. But the pitcher’s got to do what he’s got to do. The defense has got to do what they’ve got to do, and then the offense has got to do what they’ve got to do.”
Dodgers third baseman Kiké Hernández reacts after striking out in the seventh inning Saturday against Arizona. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)
Only one of those three things happened Saturday, when Glasnow retired the first 10 batters on just 39 pitches, striking out four.
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The spell was broken with one out in the fourth when Glasnow hit Ketel Marte with a 1-1 pitch. He escaped the inning without further damage and with the no-hitter intact.
“I was aware of it, yeah,” he said of the no-hitter.
Arizona’s Eduardo Rodriguez (6-8) was nearly as stingy, however, giving up just two hits through four innings, although he did walk two.
Rodriguez, who started the night with a 5.67 ERA, is the fourth starter with an ERA over 5.00 the Dodgers have faced in their past eight…